Mack Sennett at Biograph Films Screening at MOMA March 6th
/Mack Sennett spent his formative years at Biograph, emerging from the ranks of the Griffith stock company to become a regular comic lead and, soon, the primary director of Biograph’s comedy unit. These short, “split-reel” comedies, all from Sennett’s first year as a director, find him developing the broad, frenetic slapstick style that he would bring to his own company, Keystone, in 1912. Sennett appears as an actor in most of these shorts (including one of his many spoofs of Sherlock Holmes, $500 Reward), alongside future Keystone stars Mabel Normand, Fred Mace, and Charlie Murray.
GME distributes the Il Cinema Ritrovato award winning DVD of the films of Mack Sennett in THE MACK SENNETT COLLECTION: VOLUME ONE, including THE MANICURE LADY (1911), also screening in the aforementioned program.
FILMMAKER MACK SENNETT
